Women for president : media bias in eight campaigns

While women have been elected to the highest offices in countries such as England, Germany, and India, the idea that a woman could be president of the United States provokes ridicule. When Hillary Clinton announced her 2008 bid for president she was the Democratic front-runner--yet she received less coverage than Barack Obama, who trailed her in the polls. Such a disparity is indicative of the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872. Tracing the campaigns of eight women who ran for president through 2004--Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, and Carol Moseley Braun--author Falk finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates.--From publisher description.Lire la suite...

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Tracing the campaigns of eight women who ran for president through 2004, this book finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates. It asserts that this bias calls into question the modern democratic assumption that men and women have a comparable access to positions of power.Lire la suite...

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"A powerful evidence-based look at how the media has overlooked and undervalued women presidential candidates since they first ran over 130 years ago. This is a must read for political operatives and voters across America." Donna Brazile, chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute and campaign manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000 "Erika Falk's thorough research into how women running for president have been covered (on appearance) or ignored (on substance) is a provocative, cautionary tale for the political press." Adam Clymer, retired chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times "Well written and well argued, Women for President is a must read for anyone trying to make sense of Hillary Clinton's bid to become the Democratic Party nominee for president." Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential AdvertisingLire la suite...

"While women have been elected to the highest offices in countries such as England, Germany, and India, the idea that a woman could be president of the United States provokes ridicule. When Hillary Clinton announced her 2008 bid for president she was the Democratic front-runner--yet she received less coverage than Barack Obama, who trailed her in the polls. Such a disparity is indicative of the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872. Tracing the campaigns of eight women who ran for president through 2004--Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, and Carol Moseley Braun--author Falk finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates.--From publisher description."@en